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A welcome entry into the non-Western fantasy field set in the ancient Mayan underworld, Xibalba, and the Mexican Jazz Age.
As we step into the third decade of the 21st century, the contributors at Fiction Unbound reflect on some of our favorite posts from the past.
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we recommend a few of our favorite Native American speculative fiction writers and stories.
Two ways to appreciate the prolific, Hugo-award winning Philip K. Dick: attend the 2nd International Philip K. Dick Festival and revisit one of his most popular novels.
Ted Chiang’s second collection of award-winning stories, reviewed.
Author Jim Ringel discovers in Scott Smith’s The Ruins, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian a different kind of eco-fiction.
Non-Western fantasies increase readers’ understanding of diverse histories and cultures in an increasingly xenophobic age.
For Black History Month, some favorite short stories by new and classic black SF/F writers.
Undertow Publications is a small press that has won the Shirley Jackson award for best edited anthology. Their lauded anthology, Year’s Best Weird Fiction went from endangered to extinct with Volume 5. Come celebrate this beautiful volume and learn about this press, which despite this set back, has amazing books on offer this year.
Melissa Albert’s debut novel cuts to the bone of European fairy tales to find the essence of nightmares: horrors that are both seductive and disturbing.
We love Binti! We’re celebrating the re-release of Okorafor’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning trilogy in beautiful hardcover editions with an appreciation of the difficulties involved in coming of age, intergalactic exploration, and saving the world, all at the same time.
Celebrating Carmen Maria Machado with a summer re-post of our review of Her Body and Other Parties
A thoughtful vision of humanity’s future among the stars is well translated from book to screen in The Expanse.
An interview with Tiffany Quay Tyson.
On the page or on screen, Annihilation will test the limits of what you know about the world and yourself.
With the exciting film release of A Wrinkle in Time, the Fiction Unbounders went back to the source material and re-lived some childhood magic.
In Liani Taylor's lyrical and dark fantasy, killing your enemies doesn't solve anything and there are no easy answers.
Le Guin dreamed whole realities that forced us to reexamine assumptions we took for granted, and to see new ways forward.
From recent takes to enduring classics, we love time travel stories.
Pairing Guillermo del Toro's water monster romance with Sofia Samatar's celebrated 2013 selkie story.
The Unbound Writers look back on the wild ride that was 2017 and gear up for what comes next.
When the weather outside gets frightful, make the most of the atmosphere by treating yourself to one of these cold-weather classics of speculative fiction.
The Unbound Writers go trick-or-treating down Memory Lane for Halloween horror recommendations.
This Friday the 13th the Fiction Unbounders discuss their favorite Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and how these tales became the source material for favorite childhood nightmares.
If you have a craving for lush, high-fantasy there is no one better than Patricia A. McKillip
Rounding out our coverage of the 2017 Hugo winners, with special congratulations to Lois McMaster Bujold for winning the first-ever "Best Series" Hugo Award.
In Miller's poignant debut novel the power to control and the power to discover truth are superhuman abilities in a world where everything is in doubt.
The Unbound Writers appreciate Hugo Award nominee short stories.
This week we take a peek at the year’s best novellas. The Unbound Writers threw the titles of the Hugo Award nominations for Best Novella into a hat and passed it around. We found they're all worth a read.
No one is reading more dark fiction than Ellen Datlow. Her knowledge of the horror genre is deeper than mine or yours.
As we step into the third decade of the 21st century, the contributors at Fiction Unbound reflect on some of our favorite posts from the past.
Enjoy a well-deserved rest with the Fiction Unbound Writers and enjoy this five-hour Darth Vader Yule Log.
Books are the perfect gift and we’ve got suggestions for everyone on your list.
C.S. Peterson returns from the writer’s paradise of Clarion West and reflects on risk, roller coasters, and relationships.
Happy 4th of July! The Unbound Writers are taking the week off but have left you a little something fun: staff kudos and zombies loving fireworks!
Want to wander the stars instead of the beach this summer? Travel in time? Discover something remarkable? We’ve got you covered with our latest round of recommendations.
We are halfway between winter and spring. The eagles have returned to their nests, the owlets have already hatched. But if you’re stuck in the doldrums, here are two books and a field trip to reawaken your imagination.
It’s time for the Fiction Unbound 3rd annual roundup of speculative fiction recommendations to gift your beloved. Sure to please.*
*Not a legally binding guarantee.
The Indian Hindu epic The Ramayana unifies and defines the divergent cultures of Southeast Asia.
It’s been a year. Our contributors look back on the Fiction Unbound highlights of 2018.
The best world-building is participatory, a collaboration between artist and audience. Artist Julie Buffalohead creates narrative images layered with personal meaning, both playful and serious. At the same time, she invites the viewer in, leaving of room for the mysterious.
Image: Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), A Little Medicine and Magic, 2018. Oil on canvas; 52 x 72 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery. Image courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery
The holidays are here again. The days are short and the nights are long. Best stock up on stories that will see you through the long dark.
Our editors share their thoughts on Lit Fest 2018 in Denver.
Grab a frosty beverage and head to the hammock or the beach with one of these great speculative summer reads!
Tremble before the Cyclopean obscenity of our Valentine's Day recommendations!
Here at Fiction Unbound, we're ready for 2018. Are you? Here are our literary New Year's resolutions and a look back at our personal moments and favorite books of 2017.
The Unbound Writers picked their favorites to recommend books that will see you and your friends and families through the holiday season and beyond.
An Unbound writer comes back from the Clarion SF/F Writers Workshop and into a dystopian moment.
Fiction Unbound's 2017 summer reading recommendations. Look no further for great speculative fiction to dive into this summer.
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology pairs perfectly with a visit to “Vikings: Beyond the Legend” at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Need some book recommendations for Valentine's Day? Well, frak, don't ask us.
Enjoy a well-deserved rest with the Unbound Writers and enjoy this five-hour Darth Vader Yule Log.
Magic and miracles on a long dark night. We recommend some great books to keep you and yours company until the sun returns.
"Luminous beings are we," says Yoda. Star Wars and the Power of Costume at the Denver Art Museum celebrates the creative process that brought to life a modern myth.
Looking to lose a little time? The best links from around the web, according to us. This edition is dedicated to readers--our most favorite people!
Panelists at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's LitFest '16 debate “The Resurrection of Dystopian Lit,” and The Unbound Writers speculate.
A welcome entry into the non-Western fantasy field set in the ancient Mayan underworld, Xibalba, and the Mexican Jazz Age.
The Fiction Unbound editors discuss connections and similarities between The Good Place and Good Omens. Meta observations about storytelling and what makes us human ensue.
If you love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland you won’t want to miss this anthology, a collection of seventeen original works that will make you reexamine your own relationship to Wonderland.
In Hugo Award-winner Alix E. Harrow’s debut novel, ordinary doors open to ordinary spaces and capital D Doors open to other worlds.
Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-bending memoir is a formally dazzling and emotionally acute testimony of an abusive queer relationship.
The world of Fountains Parish is a delightfully dark steampunk fantasy, where making friends takes on every shade of meaning. Homunculi, golem, AI, human—the difference between the spark of life that comes by way of magic and the one that comes from nature might not be as big as you think.
Nino Cipri’s short story collection, Homesick, explores the impact of the things that haunt us and how, most often, that thing is the true self we most wish to deny.
The difficult details about real traumas China suffered in the early 20th century make this widely-praised trilogy uniquely interesting. The unusual fantasy elements and atypical heroine’s journey are bonuses.
You won’t want to miss the latest from Priya Sharma. Ormeshadow is a quick read that packs an emotional punch.
Finalist for 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera is well worth checking out. Fiction Unbound dives into this science fiction story about an intergalactic Eurovision contest that will determine the fate of humanity.
Sarah Pinsker’s debut novel sings the joys of connection and the discontent of sticking it to the Man.
Don’t miss this latest release from Undertow Publications: All The Things We Never See by Michael Kelly. It will have you itching to create, which will be a good use of the time you used to spend sleeping.
Ted Chiang’s second collection of award-winning stories, reviewed.
A Review of the excellent Sing Your Sadness Deep by British Fantasy Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro.
Yes, it’s hot. We say, embrace it! Our editors recommend four stories, out this summer, that sizzle with neurotech and mindships, gunslingers and tornadoes. As an added bonus you’ll have indisputable reason to participate in National Coffee Milkshake Day.
Sarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X radically disassembles womanhood into its surreal parts.
Cadwell Turnbull’s debut novel cannily explores cycles of violence through an alien occupation of the Virgin Islands.
In her Pulitzer Prize nominated collection, Get in Trouble, Link delves into the delights and perils of being granted your heart’s desire.
LeVar Burton carries on the bright legacy of his show Reading Rainbow with his podcast, LeVar Burton Reads. We selected a few of our favorite speculative fiction stories from his collection of episodes to recommend.
If you are interested in the themes of mirrors and mothers, bodies as machines, daughters and madness, flowers and blood, then Georgina Bruce’s debut story collection is for you!
Fiction Unbound explores the fresh voices and exciting ideas that are the novellas nominated by SWFA members for the Nebula Awards. No predictions.
Headley’s retelling of Beowulf through the eyes of Grendel’s mother and Hrothgar’s wife takes on epic heroes, American veterans with PTSD, gentrification, the monstrosity of racism, and Edward Scissorhands.
Fiction Unbound’s celebration of Nebula Award nominees continues. This week, a collection of slightly longer SF/F confections: novelettes. Come for the alternate histories, stay for the reincarnation and romance.
Fiction Unbound continues our annual tradition of admiring the unique voices and daring ideas that are the short stories nominated by SWFA member writers for the Nebula Awards. No predictions.
Dystopia can be fun, in the right hands, but time loops probably aren’t. Example: our own era. Fiction Unbound writers Gemma and Catie explore stories that consider what the future may bring based on where we are presently, in the new collection A People’s Future of the United States.
Laini Taylor put a restriction on this project: killing couldn’t be the solution to her characters’ conflicts. The result is a harrowing exploration of nightmares, both lived and dreamed.
Whitney Scharer’s historical fiction The Age of Light is a sumptuous look into photographer and artist Lee Miller’s relationship with Man Ray. Set in Paris in the early 1930’s, this novel does a beautiful job of giving Lee Miller a strong, clear voice during her formative years as a artist.
2015 Man Booker winner Marlon James embraces epic fantasy with a non-conforming, lightning-paced tale that up-ends every expectation.
The award-winning Sarah Pinsker finally has a collection out, and it’s excellent.
Newman’s novel is an inspired time-travel story and a troubled look at progressive hopes.
Watchmen and Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant have more in common than you might think.
Big corporations are destroying your books without explanation, probably because hosting the platform isn’t as profitable as expected.
C.S. Peterson returns from the writer’s paradise of Clarion West and reflects on risk, roller coasters, and relationships.
Cadwell Turnbull’s debut novel cannily explores cycles of violence through an alien occupation of the Virgin Islands.
As we crack the cover on 2019 and dig into the books on our resolution reading lists, Christie and Meghan take a look at what makes a great opening.
The best world-building is participatory, a collaboration between artist and audience. Artist Julie Buffalohead creates narrative images layered with personal meaning, both playful and serious. At the same time, she invites the viewer in, leaving of room for the mysterious.
Image: Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), A Little Medicine and Magic, 2018. Oil on canvas; 52 x 72 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery. Image courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery
Parenting is risky business, more so when ghosts take an uninvited co-parenting role.
Writer Gabino Iglesias’ new book Coyote Songs hit book stores this week. Check out this interview for ideas about writing, the horror of murder and living interstitially.
In the world of Japanese anime you can slip from the ordinary to the magical at any moment.
Fiction Unbound’s Gemma Webster chats with UK writer Priya Sharma.
Head into the swamps with some fallen families and wild grotesques in Part 2 of our Southern Gothic extravaganza.
An exploration of Southern Gothic speculative literature.
Wild, raging girls seem to be everywhere these days, from movies like Logan to books like The Girl with All the Gifts.
In honor of Ishiguro's Nobel lecture last night, we revisit our woolly musings on 2015's The Buried Giant.
Everybody loves SF/F adaptations these days. We'd like to see these.
What do Logan, the noir-Western superhero film featuring the classic brooding antihero of the X-Men, and Hillbilly Elegy, the memoir by J.D. Vance, have in common? Put on some Jonny Cash, pour yourself a bourbon and let's talk.
An Unbound writer comes back from the Clarion SF/F Writers Workshop and into a dystopian moment.
Steven Millhauser's short story "Phantoms” invites readers to consider the phantoms that haunt them. Jon considers his phantoms and how they expose his complicity in perpetuating prejudice against trans people.
At the cultural crossroads of Cambodian folklore, belief and speculative literature, with emerging author Kay Chronister
After a politically tumultuous 2016, Jon seeks solace in the fantasy worlds of Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab.
Gem and Jon wade through the tired tropes that television can’t get enough of.
Is the world ready to say goodbye to the docile black man trope?
Lisa Mahoney looks for common themes in Bhutanese folktales and finds... the phallus town.
The ambitious cosplay of devoted fans, contrasted to the quiet insecurities of blockbuster writers.
Panelists at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's LitFest '16 debate “The Resurrection of Dystopian Lit,” and The Unbound Writers speculate.
An ambitious masterpiece of Chinese science fiction, reviewed.
Time travel novels Kindred and The River of No Return question how the evolving ethics of society shape our sense of self.
In "Revolt 1680/2180," an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, artist Virgil Ortiz explores a post-apocalyptic world informed by the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680, where the future echoes the past.
A welcome entry into the non-Western fantasy field set in the ancient Mayan underworld, Xibalba, and the Mexican Jazz Age.